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Kaspersky Compromised

Monday, February 09, 2009
Author: Richard S. Westmoreland
Permalink: kaspersky-website-db-exposed

General News

A hacker announced on Saturday that he managed to gain access to databases used by usa.kaspersky.com, allowing him to gain access to users' accounts, activation codes and possibly customers' personal data. The hacker indicated that no confidential data would be exposed, but he does provide a list of the different tables available in the database as proof of the exploit. It appears to have been a simple SQL injection attack.

Read the original article here:

http://securityandthe.net/2009/02/08/kaspersky-database-exposed/